i have finally got around to cataloguing some artwork (from slides) from my student days in london...
shifting perspectives 1991
[detail... 25cm x 25cm]shifting perspectives, 1992... what i said about this work at the time..On a map, a river is shown by a simple line, with no indication of flow or force. Rivers are primary routes of exploration and navigation, shaping the surrounding landscape. All of these rivers (the twenty five longest rivers in the world) are made in high relief, with handmade paper and resin using moulds, recreating a geological process, arranged in ordered segments to evoke the charting and cataloging of the environment... underneath each tile is the total length in miles of the river in white vinyl lettering.(this piece of work was in my degree show and was later exhibited in the new contemporaries)
on the road (to newcastle) 1991, 48 ins x 64 insbased on a street map of newcastle, this piece explores how we are directed to move through a manmade environment. the dotted white line passes once through each square oblivious to the road infrastructures, and the red route roughly follows the same course, but is limited by traffic and road systems..
[detail of on the road..]my original idea was to create a series of large works based on major cities of the UK, but i only got as far as Liverpool..
[liverpool landscape; the left side..]
[liverpool landscape; detail]
[liverpool landscape, taken before completion of the right side, 96 ins x 64 ins]
[liverpool landscape 1991, showing left and right sides of work]in 1991, i wrote: on the left is a street map of liverpool, a metallic relief resembling a printing template.. i am planning to emboss each corresponding plate onto the earth coloured tiles, producing a positive and negative. the tiles mirror a landscape as seen from above, as in aerial photography. it comments on man's mark on the environment, showing the unique imprint of a city centre, as roads are determined by geological and sociological factors.